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cousin Of Henry Irving.
The international yacht races cost tho
projectors 81 40, 600 this year.
II Is SAID that the word ''dyspepsia"
is never heard in the Gladstone family.
The sale Of mustang ponies in Ala
oama this year is unprecedented. No
farm is considered complete without
one.
A Lee. Mass, firm has received an
order for eight thousand head-siones
for the national cemetery ut 1915 per
stone.
Preliminary surveys are in progress
~ Mayfield. Cal, to secure site for the
great Stanford university. Senator
Stanford gives his personal attention to
tho work.
Cinnamon in some places on tho
Pacific coast arc supplying themselves
with arms, it is noticed. One gunsmth
sold seventeen Winchester rifles to
Cinnamon in one week.
Friends of Mary N. Murfrec, better
known rs Charles Egbcrt Craddock,
deny publicly that she is to marry n
tennessee farmer They also say she
viii not marry any one else.
John NJ. Bookwalter. the Ohio patron
OF the fine arts, will extend his Euro
pean tour to Egypt and India. On his
way there and back he will purchase
all the curiosities he discovers.
Queen Victoria has denounced the
lift English for elevator) in Buck
ingham Palace rs "that hideOus thing"
and ordered its removal, notwithstand-
ing it cost her economical majesty near
iy $4,000.
The privilege of marrying second
sine is nowadays almost as frequently
denied parent by his children as the
privilege Of the children to marry the
first time is denied by the parents, says
the Philadelphia North american.
1t is reported that syndicate has
bought the 100, 000-acre tract of the IT.
vine estate, situated in the Santa Anna
valley, Los Angeles county, California,
for Sl,250,000. A company has been
incorporated 20 build threc-story $780,
coo hotel.
In Manatec county,. Florida. they
hayo au original way OF locating the
county seat. The county safe. weighing
seven thousand pounds, is ut Wauchula,
and, rs it is impossible to move the
safe TO the courthouse, it is thought
best to move the courthouse to the
safc.
Miss Rose Cleveland, it is now an
nounced. will not clothc herself in the
Tyrian purple of Chicago, but will pro-
iect her editorial utterances from the
secluded haunts of Holland Patent,
where no Infatuated contributors will
bc permitted to modest or make her
afraid.
A citizen of Norfolk, Conn, cut oil
the index finger of his left hand while
chopping wood one day recently. As
the wound began to heal he noticed
that the stump was growing longer,
until ut last new finger. with joints
and nail complete, had replaced the one
he chopped off,
Christian Prefer, of Pittsburg, Pa.
has brought suit against his employer
for $14S for extra work that he did on
SUNDAYS. The defendant rcsists the
payment on the ground that no recovery
can be had for labor performed on the
Sabbath unless it is work Of necessity,
which is denied
There is not room enough in Louis
Vile, KY, to hold the last years crop of
tobacco, and the tobacco men do not
know what they will do when this years
crop comes in, as it is unusually large.
Farmers arc not expected to get enough
Tor their tobacco to pay for the raising
uf it when this years crop comes in.
There is wise dog in Mordcn, Mani
toba. He slipped his collar the other
day, and when his master called refused
to come. evidently fearing punishment;
out in the night he returned, managed
TO ret the collar over his head. and in
the morning was found chained to
his kennel, wagging his tail in conscious
virtue.
A Knoxville, H.. policeman, who
acted as door-keepcr ut Il dramatic per-
formance, gave a password. instead of
door checks, to those who left the build
ing before the curtain rose. Within Il
short time nearly every one i'm the town
knew the password, and before the first
act was over the house was crowded to
suflocation.
The London Athcn0nn Is authority
for the statement that the pigment
known rs mummy is nothing more
nor less than your ancient Egyptian, his
bones, his bandages. bitumen. and all,
ground up with oil. IL resembles as
phaltum in its general qualities, except
that. probably owing to admlxturc Of
linen fiber, the mineral oil ofthe ancient
titumen has disappeared, so that num-
my is not quite so liable to crack or
move OH the canvas.
An experienced traveller says that in u
sleeping car the upper berth is cooler in
summer. because there is more air STIR
ring In the top OF the car. and warmer
III winter than the lower berth, because
the warm air rises and there arc not SO
many draughts. lie might have added,
tho New York Sun thinks. another re-
commcndation. ii the berth breaks
down you fall on top of the lower berth
fellow every time.
It Is explained that the reason the
majority of women wear black stock
inrs while bathing i'm the sea is 10